Questions Of Modernity: Volume 11 (Contradictions of Modernity) - Softcover

Mitchell, Timothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816631344 ISBN 13: 9780816631346

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2000

Synopsis

Well-known contributors offer an illuminating look at how modernity develops in non-Western contexts.

Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty—which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. This book makes those very non-Western, non-universal elements the tools for fashioning a more complex, rigorous, and multifaceted understanding of how the modern comes about. Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West, eight leading anthropologists, historians, and political theorists explore the production of new forms of politics, sensibility, temporality, and selfhood in locations ranging from nineteenth-century Bengal to contemporary Morocco.

Topics include the therapeutics of colonial medical practice, the multiple registers of popular film, television serials and their audiences, psychiatrists and their patients, the iconic figure of the young widow, and the emergence of new political forms beyond the grasp of civil society.

Contributors: Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia U; Dipesh Chakrabarty, U of Chicago; Partha Chatterjee, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Veena Das, U of Delhi; Nicholas B. Dirks, Columbia U; Stefania Pandolfo, UC Berkeley; and Gyan Prakash, Princeton U.

About this title

About the Author

Timothy Mitchell is associate professor of politics and director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center at New York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816631344
• ISBN 13: 9780816631346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260